Research on Interconnection Between Arena and HLA/RTI

The interconnection between Arena and HLA/RTI belongs to the issues of creating an HLA-based distributed simulation with a commercial-off-the-shelf simulation package(CSP).The goal was to solve the interoperability problems on adapting Arena to HLA within the scope of Type I Interoperability Reference Model(IRM I).By the comparison of the execution flow of an Arena model in real-time mode with that of a HLA federate,a general approach was proposed to connect Arena model with HLA/RTI,and the adapter architecture,interfaces and its interactivities with Arena and RTI were designed.The results of experiment show that the proposed approach is correct.